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DuckDB Isn't Just Fast

A whistlestop tour of the cool bits of DuckDB

But the truth is, at least as a user, once performance reaches a satisfactory level - enough for your own data analysis to complete in a reasonable about of time - there is no further benefit from increased speed. The majority of dataframe libraries do not support datasets larger than memory or require alternate, more limited, modes of operation when using them - but in DuckDB everything works. It's not quite as fast as real native code, but it's usually close enough and has the key advantage that you can execute random binaries in a sandboxed virtual machine - mostly without rewriting them.

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